Brisket on the PK

We did use the PK the night before last on hamburgers but it was dark and I forgot to take pictures.  We smoked the brisket according to weight which was nine hours.  Now this is why I don't take food pics, I told myself all day to take a picture and got caught up doing things.  So when DH said he was pulling it off I ran out quick with the camera:

As you can see the picture is blurry, my husband was already in front of me with the cutting board.  He asked why I was taking a picture and I told him it's for the blog.  Then he said, "well you should have taken one earlier when it looked better".   You would think that this is burned to a crisp, not so:

It tasted great!  The Portable Kitchen takes a little getting used to.  First of all you cook with the cover on even when not smoking meat.  There is very little beef shrinkage which kind of throws you off when you are cooking, the meat is done before you think it is.  The way the PK is designed, the dampers eliminate the flare ups and hot spots in the coals.  Yep, no firefighting.  The meat was well done, in both the brisket and the hamburgers but not tough and chewy.  To do over again, the brisket would have been basted earlier in the cooking process and pulled off earlier.  Knowing this now will help adjust the way we cook.  So, no complaints here, DH is impressed with the PK.